Sony Alpha NEX-5N Review

Though outwardly it appears to be like really just like its predecessor, the Sony NEX-5N has made fairly several internal changes that are worthy of word. Its 16.one-megapixel EXMOR APS-C sensor is a slight upgrade of your NEX-5's 14.2 megapixels, however the reports may be the sensor's new electronic digital 1st-curtain exposure mechanism, allowing the NEX-5N to comprehend a prefocus lag time of just 0.02 second (this new electric first curtain is additionally noticed within the Sony NEX-7, A77 and A65, which also debuted at the identical time).

The newest sensor and Bionz processor also make it possible for capture of Total HD online video at 60p. A fresh touchscreen adds a handful of capabilities, but isn't going to serve to change any existing features. The NEX-5N can also be the very first NEX -- or CSC for that subject -- to attain 10 frames for every 2nd at full resolution.

The front of your NEX-5N can also be a bit distinct, which has a slight bevel behind the lens, wherever the corporate and Alpha logos now reside. "5N" can also be stamped to the front in the grip subsequent on the shutter button.

Sensor and processor. The Sony NEX-5N is based mostly across the combo of the 16.one megapixel Exmor APS HD CMOS image sensor, along with the organization's proprietary Bionz image processing motor. Although the resolution could be very near to that from the recent NEX-C3, the sensor is actually freshly developed. Overall pixel count is some 16.7 megapixels, plus the sensor's dimensions are 23.five x 15.6mm, yielding a 1.5x focal length crop when compared to 35mm lenses. The NEX-5N's sensor has a normal RGB Bayer shade filter.

That has a three or more:2 aspect ratio, the NEX-5N can supply optimum image dimensions of four,912 x 3,264 pixels at full resolution. Two additional three:two element ratio resolutions are readily available: three,568 x 2,368 pixels, or 2,448 x one,624 pixels. The NEX-5N also delivers a decision of three 16:9 element ratio shooting modes, every of which has exactly the same pixel width as its several:2 aspect counterpart, but with heights of a couple of,760, 2,000 or 1,376 pixels respectively.

The Sony NEX-5N provides an particularly vast sensitivity assortment of ISO hundred to 25,600 equivalents in one EV methods, with sensitivities amongst hundred and three,200 equivalents available both less than automated or manual management. The remainder in the vary is accessible only when selected manually. Higher ISO noise reduction cannot be disabled altogether, but delivers two adjustable operating strengths: Typical or Reduced.

Optics. Like all in the business's NEX-series cameras, the NEX-5N natively accepts only Sony E-mount lenses, while it can also settle for an unusually big selection of lenses via mount adapters provided by Sony and 3rd parties. As with its siblings inside NEX-series, the 5N won't produce in-physique image stabilization, and instead relies on optical image stabilization from the lens, if readily available.

Three Sony E-mount lenses are previously shipping within the US market: a 16mm f/two.8 prime, an 18-55mm f/3.five-five.half a dozen stabilized zoom (available in a kit using the NEX-5N entire body), and an 18-200mm f/several.five-6.3 stabilized zoom. Subsequent to arrive really should be the 30mm f/a few.five macro prime lens, that is at present slated to begin transport from October 2011, only a couple of weeks immediately after the NEX-5N goes on purchase. More lens models arriving later on this twelve months really should see the lineup swell to 7 models, including a Sony 55-210mm f/four.five-6.three stabilized zoom in October, a Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* E 24mm f/one.8 prime in December, along with a Sony 50mm f/one.8 stabilized prime in December. The company's roadmap further telephone calls for any Sony G-branded regular zoom, a extensive angle zoom, along with a mid-telephoto prime through 2012.